Harmonising EU Competition Litigation

Maria Bergstrm is Associate Professor of European Law at Uppsala University, Sweden. Marios Iacovides is Associate Professor in EU Law, Faculty of Law & Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University and Academy Researcher of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, Sweden. Magnus Strand is Doctor of Laws in European Law at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Part I: Main Policy Issues and Particular Challenges 1. Introduction to the Directive on Competition Damages Actions Ulf Bernitz 2. Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law: A Comparison with, and Lessons from, the US Alison Jones 3. Welfare Effects of Right to DamagesA Practical Approach and the Swedish Perspective Lars Henriksson 4. Challenges for Swedish Courts: Will the New Directive on Competition Damages Actions Help? Ingeborg Simonsson Part II: Private Enforcement and the New Directive in Context 5. The Damages Directive and Other Enforcement Measures in EU Competition Law Vladimir Bastidas Venegas 6. Embedding Procedural Autonomy: The Directive and National Procedural Rules Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel 7. Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Intellectual Property Cases Paul LC Torremans Part III: Transparency, Leniency Programmes, and Human Rights 8. Transparency and Liability in Leniency Programmes: A Question of Balancing? Xavier Groussot and Justin Pierce 9. Access to Documents for Cartel Victims and Cartel Members Is the System Coherent? Bjrn Lundqvist and Helene Andersson Part IV: Private Enforcement Through National Actions 10. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Portugal Sofi a Oliveira Pais 11. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Poland Anna Piszcz 12. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Finland Causal Links, the Principle of Effectiveness and Requirements for National Solutions Katri Havu 13. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Greece and the Netherlands Agisilaos Karpetas Part V: Harm, Indirect Purchasers, and Alternative Redress 14. Indirect Purchasers Is there Anything New in the Directive? An Introductory Overview of the Current and Future Status of Indirect Purchasers in the EU Elisabeth Eklund 15. Beyond the Competition Damages Directive: What Room for Competition Law Restitution? Magnus Strand 16. The Presumption and Quantifi cation of Harm in the Directive and the Practical Guide Marios C Iacovides